I was 10 feet from Lionel Shriver tonight – a controversial yet strong author. I simply adore her novel “We need to talk about Kevin” – it actually influenced a lot my view on conflicting motherhood and the violence of these feelings and even the writing of my own novel. She has parts of text of seducing toxicity. She confirmed that tonight:

“My characters are not nice, but why should they be? Do you see only nice and kind people around you? I dont. I want them to be alive. And I want my readers to discover their humanity, not to like them for being “nice”. This is not what readers need.”

#RomaniaRocks2 British Romanian literature festival – Day 3